Blue States Sue Trump Over Anti-Trans “Intimidation”

The Associated Press reports:

Seventeen Democratic officials accused President Donald Trump’s administration of unlawfully intimidating health care providers into stopping gender-affirming care for transgender youth in a lawsuit filed Friday. The complaint comes after a month in which at least eight major hospitals and hospital systems — all in states where the care is allowed under state law — announced they were stopping or restricting the care. The latest announcement came Thursday from UI Health in Chicago.

Trump’s administration announced in July that it was sending subpoenas to providers and focusing on investigating them for fraud. It later boasted in a news release that hospitals are halting treatments. The Democratic officials say Trump’s policies are an attempt to impose a nationwide ban on the treatment for people under 19 — and that’s unlawful because there’s no federal statute that bans providing the care to minors. The suit was filed by attorneys general from 15 states and the District of Columbia, plus the governor of Pennsylvania.

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We’re suing the Trump administration for attacking access to gender-affirming health care.

They’re threatening providers with baseless criminal charges and targeting youth already facing barriers.

We won’t stop fighting for the safety and rights of the transgender community. pic.twitter.com/Z7LXfWKWnq

— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) August 1, 2025

The complaint argues that the administration violated state sovereignty by threatening to prosecute providers who treat transgender minors in states where the treatment is still legal. https://t.co/VLceewcmXE

— NBC Out (@NBCOUT) August 1, 2025

States sue Trump, saying he is intimidating hospitals over gender-affirming care for youth #LGBTQ https://t.co/xU4RCAfLBY

— David Crary (@CraryAP) August 1, 2025

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